Randahl Fink1d ago

Russian Telegram videos now show how ordinary citizens are stopped and having their phones searched.

During these searches, the police writes down their phones' unique International Mobile Equipment Identity number to log their real identity and this number in a database. So every time a citizen turns on his phone, the dictatorship then knows which citizen it is, where he is, what he is doing online, and who he is talking to.

This is not a country. This is the largest prison on earth.

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@randahl Are you sure the IMEI can tell them what the phone is doing on the internet? I've never heard that before, and I just looked it up and it doesn't seem to be true. All it can tell them is the phone's location.
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Show threadRandahl Fink1d ago

@mikelovesbikes I should be more precise: In Russia, they have an extreme internet surveillance system already, which monitors all internet activity. By manually fetching the IMEI from people, I suspect they can now guarntee a connection between the surveillance information and the device owner. So instead of knowing that SOMEONE visited a site sympathetic to Ukraine, they now know WHO did.

Does that make sense?